The Compact for Safe Cosmetics
By signing this form, my company pledges:
1. All cosmetics and personal care products made by this company anywhere in the world meet or exceed the formulation standards and deadlines set by the European Union Directive 76/768/EEC to be free of chemicals that are known or strongly suspected of causing cancer, mutation or birth defects.
2. This Company will implement substitution plans that replace hazardous materials with safer alternatives within three years, by:
• Conducting an inventory of potential chemicals of concern in our products (or byproducts) to determine their toxicity to living things, their persistence in the environment, their ability to increase in concentration in the food chain, their contamination of our bodies, or qualities they possess that pose hazards including carcinogens, endocrine disruptors, sensitizers, mutagens, reproductive toxins, developmental toxins and neurotoxins.
• Developing an aggressive substitution plan and timeline to: move to safer materials, prioritizing for substitution those compounds internationally recognized as most toxic; provide for an ongoing review of safer materials and chemicals as effective, cost-competitive alternatives are available; and work with upstream suppliers to provide toxicity data on chemicals in products.
• Publicly reporting on their progress in meeting these goals.
If your company has already signed the Compact and you wish to update your information, please contact Connie Engel at cengel@breastcancerfund.org.
